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Jean Alexander profile
Actor

Jean Alexander

Acting

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Acting credits

18

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TMDB popularity

0.5

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Movies: 6Series: 12

TMDB ID: 1215202

IMDb ID: nm0018495

Known for: Acting

Born: October 11, 1926

Died: October 14, 2016

Age: 90

Place of birth: Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1951 - 2022

Years active: 72

Average TMDB rating: 6.3

Wikidata: Q6170100

Biography

Jean Mavis Hodgkinson, known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was a British television actress. She was best known to television viewers for her long running role of Hilda Ogden in the soap opera Coronation Street, a role she played from 1964 until 1987, and also as Auntie Wainwright in the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine from 1988 to 2010. For her role in Coronation Street, she won the 1985 Royal Television Society Award for Best Performance, and received a 1988 BAFTA TV Award nomination for Best Actress.

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